How to create an oracle solaris zone cluster, install and configure oracle grid infrastructure 11. The solaris 10 operating system extends the resource control rctl facility, introduced in the solaris 9 operating system, to incorporate the ipc tunables. This procedure applies only to solaris 10 servers that have no zones or boot environments configured. Installing a solaris 10 update patch bundle to a system will update etc release file, but the sunwsolnm package version will not change, ie. How to get to solaris 10 patches post premier support. Test report oracle database performance on sun and dell. The showrev p command provides a list of all patches that were applied to the installed system, regardless of how they were applied. Aug 21, 20 i am not happy to post nontechnical posts on unixarena. Were the obsolete parameters in solaris 10 changed for something else another type of parameter maybe or something. Customers would like to install latest os patch bundles to keep their systems update to date. How to find shared memory limits and semaphore limits in.
Kernel parameters on solaris 10 on oracle solaris 10, all system v ipc facilities are either automatically configured or can be controlled by resource controls. But the recommendation is always to use the latest solaris 10 recommended patchset. Solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade unixarena. Post solaris 10 1 kernel patches have the patchids 148888xx. We also had to edit the etcsystem file to deal with a known issue the 508 release of solaris has on systems with more than 16 cores. These release notes also include endofsoftware support statements, documentation issues, and a list of integrated patches. This article describes the process of applying a solaris recommended patch cluster, or patchset as it is now called. Unfortunately the old problem ive mentioned multiple times before is showing up again, too.
Setting kernel parameters in solaris 10 hi guys, prior to the installation of ibm db2 database on solaris 10, i need to set the following parameters. I am seeking help to add patches to sloris 10 on 64 bit sparc server. We no need to bring down the server to single user mode if you are using live upgrade method during pathing and before choosing live upgrade,make sure you are using zfs as a root filesystem. Solaris patching documentation center oracle technology. Semmsl the maximum number of sempahores that can be in one semaphore set. Patching solaris 10 on servers with nonglobal zones. How to find shared memory limits and semaphore limits in solaris,hpux and aix. Solaris 10 1 patchset released and latest solaris 10. I hope oracle is not going to abandon solaris 10 in sake of their new solaris 11 express release. There were a total of 24 solaris 10 patches, including kernel updates, and 4 patchsets released on mos.
Patch administration installing and maintaining solaris 8. How to get to solaris 10 patches post premier support tales from. Featured system setting on solaris 10 with zfs for oracle database to be continued send article as pdf. Solaris 10 only uses the semmni maxsemids, semmsl mxsemnsems and semopm maxsemops parameters as other parameters are dynamic within the solaris 10 ipc model. Traditional method non live upgrade by admin this post is for the system admins who still wants to use the traditional method of patching for whatever reason they want to. Presumably, it is not yet integrated into the oracle support portal and solaris system utilities. The way to do this is, we reencapsulate the unencapsulated rootmirror disk under svm and mirror it with the original root disk. Are updates free and can be downloaded for solaris 10. And since youre using a sparc system, are you sure you dont have a valid support contract. You can change kernel values by editing the etcproject file in solaris 11 then rebooting the operating system. I am not an oracle dba or admin, but a solaris admin.
I am new to solaris and i have a very dumb question. For example, consider a system that has three oracle instances with the processes parameter in their initsid. Solaris 10 only uses the semmni maxsemids, semmsl mxsemnsems and semopm maxsemops parameters as other parameters are dynamic within the. The solaris 10 1 kernel patch, 14714726 sparc 14714826 x86. Apr 19, 2017 oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware tool and 298 other security bugs mega load of updates lands for tons of big red gear by iain thomson in san francisco 19 apr 2017 at 00.
Solarishp open view patches release notes for hpov 5. So if one of these contains 15040015, use can use that. Refer to solaris 10 and solaris 11 tuning using etcproject. Oracle 9i install failing on solaris 10 oracle community. Once again, i immediately reported this to suns patch team. Learn how to install solaris 8, add and remove packages, list installed packages, add and remove patches, and list installed patches. As usual, weve released a patchset of all the patches contained in solaris 10 1 update 11. Getting solaris 10 patches with smpatch, pca and oracle. This is to prepare the server for the installation of oracle 10g. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use. The following steps check for the existence of a netbackup project, and allow you to tune semaphore values within the project. For specific recommendations for tuning solaris to work with websphere application server, see the topic tuning solaris systems. Sun takes patching very seriously and has rigorous testing mechanisms in place to ensure that patches are safe to implement.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here. The solaris 10 cpus critical patch updates on mos are archived copies of the solaris 10 recommended patchsets taken on the cpu date. Here we will see the installation steps of oracle database 10. For a limited time sunsolve will provide access to all solaris 10 patches. Solaris 10 kernel patchids sequence overview of kernel patches for the. How to apply a solaris recommended patch cluster solaris. How to find the oracle solaris critical patch update cpu patchsets, recommended os pa how to find the oracle solaris critical patch update cpu patchsets, recommended os patchsets for oracle solaris and oracle solaris update patch bundles.
We are getting multiple requests for solaris kernel patching procedure from many of your gurkul followers. It is not required to run netbackup in a project on these operating systems but the following steps are what is required to set semaphore values on a solaris 10 system. This page provides the latest information on patching. Please list command and specific directory that patches should the unix and linux forums. Solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. How to determine the release and default kernel version in. Implement one of these tuning methods as suitable for the installation environment. As a first step, download the recommended patch cluster from the my oracle support mos site. The patch set is now available in mos as a patchset cpu, which can be downloaded from here. Solaris 10 1008 operating system patch list solaris 10 10. To list the applied patches or to dertermine the presence of a specific patch, use the showrev command. The solaris 10 software includes a known and tested level of patches.
Its similar to the solaris 89 patchset installation codes, but there are more codes added to the list. Short guide to install oracle 9i on sun solaris 7 and 8. Solaris 10 raises the system defaults for these parameters so that most applications can run out of the box. Theres only four such patchsets a year and this is quite handy for rolling baselines when you plan to patch all of your solaris 10 servers in a particular quarter. Those of you still on solaris 10 may want to download the latest recommended patchset for solaris 10 which was published just last week, on 28th of january 2016. Solaris operating system version 10 1 u11 to 10 1 u11 release 10. Oct 26, 2011 for servers with solaris 10 os at, or near, update 1 106 or update 2 606, if nonglobal zones are already configured and running, patching these servers at single user mode will encounter issues.
In the case a system has multiple solaris 10 update patch bundles installed, the etcrelease file will contain only a single patch bundle identification line, and this will corresponds to the newest patch bundle installed on the system. As unix admin, we have to provide those patch bundles information to. For solaris x64 processorbased systems, see how to get started with ibm websphere application server on solaris 10 and zones. Patches may only be loaded on the global zone but not on.
Patches released after the solaris 10 1008 release can be found on the my oracle support. Recommended netbackup unix linux semaphore tuning values. Solaris 10 1 patchset released and latest solaris 10 kernel. I tried to install patch and could not find oracle patches for solaris 10 and the patches are for solaris 9. Apr 18, 2003 this sample chapter covers the installation section of the solaris 8 system adminstrator exam. Also, any solaris 10 system installed with solaris 10 1 solaris 10 update 11 are not vulnerable. How can i set shmmax shmmni semsml semmni semopm on. It updates the patch packages pkginfo file with information about patches made obsolete by the patch being installed, other patches required by this patch, and about patches incompatible with this patch. They also make it easy to apply and manage patches so there are no excuses. This is especially useful when you need to patch solaris 10 so p2v migrations can be performed when moving to new servers like the m122. Dear all, i want to check whether all essential kernel parameters are installed in my solaris 10 system. Show applied patches or check for a specific patch in solaris. Installing a solaris 10 update patch bundle to a system will update etcrelease file, but the sunwsolnm package version will not change, ie.
Step install oracle 10g r2 on solaris 10 x86 azizs blog. Analysis of the oracle solaris configuration, including networking, storage, and oracle solaris operating system features in use. Today i am going to show you 2 things1 download patchset from oracle support and apply it on solaris 10 machine. The following kernel parameters are removed or commented out from etcsystem.
Oracle solaris 10 1 update 11 patch bundle for x86 systems. Open the file in a text editor and search for the patch numbers. How to modify shmmax on various solaris platform channel k. Click the oracle and sun systems products suite link. Set to the sum of the processes parameter for each oracle database, adding the largest one twice, then add an additional 10 for each database. Correct, its not possible to get solaris 10 patches with out a valid support contract. Solaris 10 users pick and choose which patches they install from various patch releases instead of upgrading their.
Posting updated june 6, 20, with new solaris 10 kernel patchids 150400xx sparc and 150401xx x86. The oracle solaris 10 patch utility patches are 119254% sparc and 119255%. Solaris 10 server patching linux administration blog. Pca is a perl script which generates lists of installed and missing patches for oracle solaris systems and optionally downloads and installs patches. The solaris 10 1008 patch list provides a list of patches preapplied to the solaris 10 1008 release. The following command saves the sorted output to a file called patchlist. How can i set shmmax shmmni semsml semmni semopm on solaris 10. Migration to an oracle solaris zone on an oracle solaris 10 host. Is there a way to find out the current parameter values in solaris 10, so that i can compare the current parameter values that i have from the old solaris 8.
Download the latest solaris 10 patches using patchfinder and find updated support content using the sunsolve knowledgebase. Kernel parameters configuration commvault documentation. How to check solaris release and default kernel version. Oracle released solaris 10 811 this week providing performance improvements and new hardware support. How to check solaris release and default kernel version the. Solaris operating system version 10 9 10 u9 and later. I have been involved with getting oracle 10g application packages loaded on a couple of solaris 10 serversan enterprise 420 and an ultra 10. Dec 11, 2010 in fact, oracle has migrated all sun servers hosting solaris patches to its own servers. See the how to and resources tabs for all our patching documentation for solaris users with various levels of patching experience.
I am trying to present the simple patching procedure when. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root filesystem. Im using the following commands to find shared memory limits and semaphore limits in linux. Or i must buy support to obtain updates, as in rhel.
But i felt this post will be helpful for solaris administrators to find the latest os patch bundles from oracle. Short guide to install oracle 10 on sun solaris 10. I would like to patch the server by installing the recommended patch cluster from oracle solaris 10. The article is based on a default server installation as shown here. Since its inception, one of the big features in solaris 10 has been zfs zettabyte file system which has also improved over the years. How to find the oracle solaris critical patch update cpu. Minimum requirements for solaris 10 in guest ldoms on m7, s7, and t7 platforms minimum requirements for solaris 10 in guest ldoms on m7, s7, and t7.
Solaris 9 hardware requirements 9 software requirements 10 kernel parameters 10 solaris 9 11 solaris 10 11 chapter 3 prepare the system 12 set up an oracle os user 12 set up the shell environment variables for oracle 10g 12 free disk space in the tmp directory copy database start and stop scripts for the oracle server 14. Solaris 10 systems which have had any kernel patch installed after, or updated via patching tools since 20120126 are not impacted. Solaris 8 and solaris 9 also include newer kernel update patch rejuvenation. Solaris 10 and oracle 10g r2 enterprise edition release 10. By default, if run without any option or operand, pca shows a list of all patches which are not installed in their most recent revision. So, solaris 11 which is radically different from the solaris 10, but talk about it separately it deserves another blog post for another time in terms of patching strategy is double. These patches are located in the varsadm patch directory on an installed system. The solaris 10 operating system first debuted in 2004 and has been updated on a regular basis ever since.
I tried to run netca from the command line and got the same problem java runtime problem. The solaris 10 release notes documents important installation and runtime issues and bugs. But eventually all good things must continue reading how to get to solaris 10 patches post premier support. The article was written for solaris 10 on sparc but the principles apply equally to x64. Some applications require a specific set of patches in order to function properly. For solaris os you can check the os level setting as given below. From the oracle installation guide it is not clear which kernel parameters are supposed to use the new solaris 10 resource control facility, and those which are to use the the etcsystem file. These patches were applied when the solaris 10 os was created. After this promotion ends, solaris 10 security fixes will remain available to everyone. Solaris 10 also obsoletes many of the older ipc tunables. It also describes how to use this information to determine the solaris os release installed on a system or contained within a solaris jumpstart software server image. We no need to bring down the server to single user mode if you are using live upgrade method during pathing and b efore choosing live upgrade,make sure you are using zfs as a root filesystem. The article was written for solaris 10 on sparc but the principles apply equally to.
So maybe you can help me out with the following two questions. Solaris 10 extended support will run thru january 2021. The patches that are listed in this chapter have been applied to the solaris 10 operating system in one. Based on you running solaris express on sparc, it appears youd need to flip to solaris 10, or more likely solaris 11 which would be closer to solaris express opensolaris that youre using. Use the following formula to calculate the value for the semmsl parameter. It should be same size as maximum number of oracle processes the processes parameter in the init. To list all patches applied to the system, run the following. Patching best practices for the solaris 10 os docdeveloppement. It determines the solaris version number of the managing host and the target host. Recommended patchset for solaris 10 january 2016 solaris blog. Solaris 10 was originally launched in january 2005, and over its lifespan has introduced a ton of ground breaking features, like the zfs volume managerfilesystem, dtrace, zones, service management facility, trusted extensions and more. Latest solaris 10 patch bundles i dont know if its just my own ignorance or oracle purposely obfuscating the latest patch bundles for solaris but i recently had a hell of a time finding the january 2017 patch bundle for solaris 10. Installing oracle applications ebusiness suite release 12 on solaris let us consider we a re installing oracle ebusiness suite release 12 12.
Ive been trying to find from where i can download patches updates. Net configuration assistant is failing from installation. It moves outdated files and directories to the var directory. Therefore, these patches are not located in the var sadm patch directory. I was actually just now on the phone with oracle about an unrelated matter, and theyve confirmed with me that its now not possible to download any patches for. The aim of this installation is to obtain an ebs 12. Use the following steps to modify the kernel parameters in solaris 10 and above. Command to find out when the patches are installed in solaris. Installing oracle applications ebusiness suite release. No specified operating system patches are required with solaris 10 os.
Command to find out when the patches are installed in solaris machine. Oracle solaris 10 1 update 11 patch bundle for sparc systems. Migration to an oracle solaris zone on an oracle solaris 11 host. Keeping any computer system patched is critical to functionality and security. First of all following prerequisites must be checked at the operating system level.